I’m curious as to the differences between doing a /system backup save and a /export.
I understand that a backup will tag the license within the file and therefor only work with “that router”. I’ve found that an /export and /import (after renaming interfaces!) works very well for me. I’m just wondering what is those several MBs!
I just did this command on our core router and the file created by /export is 275KB while the /system backup save is 8.7MB. Huge difference - has to include some extra things!
The main difference between export and backup. You can modify export configuration and adapt it to any other settings (moreover you can export only specific part of the configuration), it is not possible to change backup files.
As well, passwords are not stored in export files for security reasons, but backup file contains them.
On my home router an export is 25.2K while the backup is 359K. Both of the two examples have some graphs. I could see the graphs being the cause of the large data size increase.
You said that it was possible to do a restore on a backup from a different router. Just a few weeks ago we got a shipment of RB153s and I wanted to put a “company default config”. This includes some users, firewall rules, WAN/LAN/NAT/masquerade/bridge stuff, etc. When I tried to restore it on the second RB153 (using a backup from the first) I got a mis-match license error.
What did I do wrong? I would really like to be able to backup/restore between different licenses!
hmmm… about a month ago I transfer the config from 2.9.27 (oops, Level 2 =) ) to 2.9.46 (Level 4) - all I had to do was change parent interfaces in VLANs. there were no license errors